Thank you. This is another part of our supplementary estimates that I'm very pleased to speak about with the committee.
This is a renewal of the clean air agenda for Health Canada. It is a five-year program. This is a government-wide crosscutting initiative, but the Health Canada role involves, in particular, looking at heat and air pollution. We are looking at, for example, the expansion of our heat alert and response system. We've been piloting, with four areas across the country, the ability to work with health facilities and health providers to help them understand what might be the thresholds whereby we might alert health providers to different kinds of heat effects they might see in the population. Those four pilots have been in Winnipeg, in the Assiniboine region of Manitoba, in Windsor, and in Fredericton.
We're now at the next stage. We think we can take the lessons learned from those pilots, which were quite successful, and roll out those tools across the country to help health professionals, whether in emergency rooms or elsewhere, to understand what might be the signs and what might be the responses the health system should have in a heat wave, for example, that might have the kinds of health effects that we've seen in other parts of the world.
We're actually very pleased that we can focus on that. We also have some research money as part of this that helps us to continue to focus on the science behind clean air issues, air pollution, and other things to make sure that our scientists continue to be on top of the latest scientific thinking across the world so that we understand the health impacts.